I’ve been very low energy this week in the gray winter weather. In the meantime I’ve been enjoying the discussions on the new Secret San francisco Facebook board. People love underground stuff, yet nothing is very secret on this site.

According to this KQED article, In just a week or two it’s expanded to over 50,000 members with discussions on the best brunch in the city to the best cafe to read a book (I suggested Atlas Cafe for their sweet potato-beet pizzas, magazine selection, location and space)

The idea came from the Secret London group and expanded now to most major cities. I wish you could do detailed searches on it, but it’s fun regardless if you want to learn about Rusty Wells’ affordable yoga, like I do, discuss places to get a healthy mani-pedi (Polished Lounge, here I come), or suggest awesome hooping classes (Hoop The Flow in the Mission).

As far as secret food, Mission street food is as underground as it gets in the bay area. I learned about it through my journalist friend Gregory, who came over for blueberry kombucha recently and recently wrote a piece about “pop up” SF restaurants for the NY Times. Last Thursday Mission Street Food held a secret vegan benefit dinner for Food not Bombs and its next dinner is planned for the 28th. Chefs take over a Chinese restaurant and experiment once a week, with proceeds going to charity. Awesome!

I asked if they could have an event to benefit the Congo, but they mostly donate to hunger organizations. They’re looking for investors to give $500 to fund a restaurant that will give all proceeds to charity, in fact, but they don’t mention anything its focus being sustainable or plant-based.

I’m sure there’s tons of secret foodie stuff going on in the east bay too. To keep track of the smaller food carts throughout the area, Twitter and this calendar site help.

Let me know anything I missed : )